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Chinese Grand Prix Review

 

If ever a better weekend occurred for the BBC to be granted full coverage rights, it was most certainly the Chinese Grand Prix.  Dramatic racing action that kept everyone who watched on the edge of their seat was the order of the weekend.  It was definitely the best of the year so far, and probably Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg's favourite of his entire time in Formula 1...

 

After 111 races, the young and extremely talented driver has completed a near-flawless weekend with the victory of his career.  It started with an unbeatable lap in qualifying, and the rest is very much in the same vein as the Sebastian Vettel or Michael Schumacer of old, meaning complete domination.  Based off this performance, its fair to say that we think we may have not seen the last of Rosberg on the top step of the podium this year.

 

But of course, as has been widely discussed throughout the realms of social media, the main drama came from the battle of epic proportions that occurred from 2nd position to 10th.  Hamilton, Button, Webber, Vettel, Maldonado, Alonso, Kobayashi, Grosjean, Senna and Raikonnen were all involved in a fight down to the wire for points positions.  This gave way to some of the most aggressive racing I've seen in a long time in Formula 1.  Raikonnen lead the train of cars for a good majority of the race until his tyres (metaphorically) fell off the edge: that point in time when all grip is lost and you're racing on severely blistered and compromised wheels.

 

This left for some daring maneuvres through the riskier dirty parts of the track to overtake a disadvantaged Sebastian Vettel, racing with a slightly different car setup to his teammate has proven rather unfortunate.  And as Button and Hamilton overtook him, Webber also went for the overtake in quite the dramatic fashion, showing just how the Aussie has become the faster out of the two.

 

We can't quite put across how unforgettably amazing this race was, all eyes forward to another fantastic confrontation (hopefully).

 

1 germany Nico Rosberg 8 Mercedes GP 1 1:40.967 1:36:26.929 25
2 great britain Jenson Button 3 McLaren-Mercedes 5 1:40.422 +00:20.626 18
3 great britain Lewis Hamilton 4 McLaren-Mercedes 7 1:40.530 +00:26.012 15
4 australia Mark Webber 2 Red Bull-Renault 6 1:40.490 +00:27.924 12
5 germany Sebastian Vettel 1 Red Bull-Renault 11 1:40.601 +00:30.483 10
6 switzerland Romain Grosjean 10 Lotus-Renault 10 1:41.120 +00:31.491 8
7 brazil Bruno Senna 19 Williams-Renault 14 1:41.293 +00:34.597 6
8 venezuela Pastor Maldonado 18 Williams-Renault 13 1:40.482 +00:35.643 4
9 spain Fernando Alonso 5 Ferrari 9 1:41.152 +00:37.256 2
10 japan Kamui Kobayashi 14 Sauber 3 1:39.960 +00:38.720 1
11 mexico Sergio Perez 15 Sauber 8 1:41.071 +00:41.066  
12 great britain Paul Di Resta 11 Force India-Mercedes 15 1:41.498 +00:42.273  
13 brazil Felipe Massa 6 Ferrari 12 1:41.240 +00:42.779  
14 finland Kimi Raikkonen 9 Lotus-Renault 4 1:41.794 +00:50.573  
15 germany Nico Hulkenberg 12 Force India-Mercedes 16 1:40.977 +00:51.213  
16 france Jean-Eric Vergne 17 Toro Rosso-Ferrari 24 1:40.019 +00:51.756  
17 australia Daniel Ricciardo 16 Toro Rosso-Ferrari 17 1:41.251 +01:03.156  
18 russian federation Vitaly Petrov 21 Caterham-Renault 19 1:42.385 lapped  
19 germany Timo Glock 24 Marussia-Cosworth 20 1:42.748 lapped  
20 france Charles Pic 25 Marussia-Cosworth 21 1:42.621 lapped  
21 spain Pedro de la Rosa 22 HRT-Cosworth 22 1:43.610 lapped  
22 india Narain Karthikeyan 23 HRT-Cosworth 23 1:43.935 lapped  
23 finland Heikki Kovalainen 20 Caterham-Renault 18 1:41.190 lapped  
24 germany Michael Schumacher 7 Mercedes GP 2 1:44.109 retired, 12 laps

 

Source: BBC

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